Tteok (Korean: 떡) is a cwass of Koreanrice cakes made wif steamed fwour made of various grains,[1] incwuding gwutinous or non-gwutinous rice. Steamed fwour can awso be pounded, shaped, or pan-fried to make tteok. In some case, tteok is pounded from cooked grains. The pronunciation is between a "t" and a "d" sound, ending wif -ukk. It couwd awso be written as ttukk, ddukk, dhukk.

Tteok has been enjoyed not onwy as desserts or seasonaw dewicacies, but awso as meaw. It can range from ewaborated versions made of various cowors, fragrances, and shapes using nuts, fruits, fwowers, and namuws, to pwain white rice tteok used in home cooking. Some common ingredients for many kinds of tteok are red bean, soybean, mung bean, mugwort, pumpkin, chestnut, pine nut, jujube, dried fruits, sesame seeds and oiw, and honey.

Tteok is usuawwy a food dat is shared. Tteok offered to spirits are cawwed boktteok ("good fortune rice cake") and shared wif neighbours and rewatives. It is awso one of de cewebratory foods in banqwets, rites, and various festive events. Tteokguk ("rice cake soup") was shared to cewebrate new year and songpyeon was shared on harvest festivaw.

Tteok is wargewy divided into four categories, such as "steamed tteok" (찌는 떡), "pounded tteok" (치는 떡), "boiwed tteok" (삶는 떡) and "pan-fried tteok" (지지는 떡). The steamed tteok is made by steaming rice or gwutinous rice fwour in "siru" (시루), or a warge eardenwaresteamer, so it is often cawwed "sirutteok" (시루떡). It is regarded as de basic and owdest form of tteok. The pounded tteok is made by using a pounding board or mortar after steamed first. In making pan-fried tteok, de rice dough is fwattened wike a pancake and pan-fried wif vegetabwe oiw. The shaped tteok are made by kneading a dough wif hot water which is usuawwy shaped into bawws.[3]

In order to make steamed tteok or sirutteok, rice or gwutinous rice is soaked in water for a whiwe, den ground. The prepared rice fwour is put in a siru and steamed. According to steaming medod, sirutteok is subdivided into two groups; seowgitteok (설기떡) is shaped into a singwe warge wump whereas kyeotteok (켜떡) consists of muwtipwe wayers wif azuki bean powder or oder bean powder. Seowgitteok is awso cawwed muritteok (무리떡), regarded as de most basic form of sirutteok made onwy wif rice. On de hand, in making kyeotteok, rice and gwutinous rice are mixed. The name of kyeotteok derives from de adverb kyeokeyo (켜켜, witerawwy "fiwed") in Korean because de tteok is made as such.[3]

Baekseowgi (백설기) - a variety of siru tteok. It witerawwy means white snow tteok which is made of white rice.